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Question

What mobo's are best with a AMD 8350, for basic gaming?

Mar 31, 2016 10:24PM PDT

I'm looking for descent gaming board to put maybe a Radeon 2gb (also open to suggestions) in and replace ageing setup. The most I'll do is basic gaming with games like Battlefront, Company of Heroes, Diablo. I was looking at the Asus Crosshair V Formula-z, but I'm not sure I'll be doing all that much over clocking and would like to keep it closer/under $150. Any ideas?

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Here's the thing.
Apr 2, 2016 10:16AM PDT

Long ago Tomshardware did an experiment by changing motherboards to see what gains could be had. Using the same memory, CPU, drives the results were all within 2 percent so the conclusion was there was nothing to gain here.

This appears to be true today. If you have a working motherboard there is no gain in changing it.

That said, here's the 2 links I check for when I'm shopping for a new board.

1. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-intel-amd-motherboard,3902.html
2. https://www.reddit.com/r/PCMasterRace/wiki/builds

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I guess I should have worded the question better.
Apr 3, 2016 12:57AM PDT

I was kind of curious if one board performed better than another or not, but that not all I was looking for. I was hoping to get few responses like what boards are more reliable etc., just a little word of mouth from people who have or have had similar setups.

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Sorry if I left it unclear.
Apr 3, 2016 7:29AM PDT

At the end of Tom's testing the variance of the tests were too close to be called anything else but human error in the tests. So if you are shopping for a motherboard that works better than the next, the tests showed you are comparing good apples to good apples.

If this was me shopping I'd use the two links to pick from.